Born on this day – Janet Gaynor:

Janet Gaynor

Actress

October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984

Born on this day – Jim Thompson:

Jim Thompson

Writer

September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977

Credits:

A Hell Of A Woman (1954); A Swell-Looking Babe (1954); After Dark, My Sweet (1955); Bad Boy (1953); Child Of Rage (1972); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1988); Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997); Cropper's Cabin (1952); Fireworks (1988); Hard-boiled (1995); Heed The Thunder (1946); Ironside (1967); King Blood (1973); More Hardcore: 3 Novels (1987); Murder Plus (1992); Nothing But A Man (1970); Nothing More Than Murder (1949); Now and On Earth (1942); Pop. 1280 (1964); Pulp Frictions (1996); Recoil (1953); Roughneck (1954); Savage Night (1953); South Of Heaven (1967); Texas By The Tail (1965); The Alcoholics (1953); The Best American Noir of the Century (2010); The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1987); The Criminal (1953); The Getaway (1959); The Golden Gizmo (1954); The Grifters (1963); The Jim Thompson Omnibus (1995); The Killer Inside Me (1952); The Kill-Off (1957); The Nothing Man (1954); The Rip-Off (1989); The Second Jim Thompson Omnibus (1997); The Transgressors (1961); The Undefeated (1969); Unusual Suspects (1996); Wild Town (1957).

Movies and television:

After Dark, My Sweet (1990); Cain's Hundred (1961); Clean Slate (1981); Convoy (1965); Dr. Kildare (1965); Fallen Angels (1993); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Hit Me (1996); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Paths of Glory (1957); Pop. 1280 (2024); Serie Noire (1979); The Getaway (1972 / 1994); The Grifters (1990); The Killer Inside Me (1976 / 2010); The Killing (1956); The Kill-Off (1989); This World, Then the Fireworks (1997); Trapped (2014).

Born on this day – Monette Dinay:

Monette Dinay

Actress

September 20, 1906 – November 19, 1986

Born on this day – Lawrence Clark Powell:

Lawrence Clark Powell

Writer

Librarian

Bibliographer

September 3, 1906 – March 14, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Passion for Books (1958); A Southwestern Century; Books in My Baggage (1960); California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State (1971); Eucalyptus Fair (1992); Fortune & Friendship: An Autobiography (1968); Heart of the Southwest; Islands of Books; Land of Fiction; Life Goes On: Twenty More Years of Fortune and Friendship (1986); Philosopher Pickett; Photographs of the Southwest (1976) (with Ansel Adams); Robinson Jeffers, the Man and His Work; Southwestern Book Trails (1982); The Alchemy of Books (1954); The Blue Train (1977); The Little Package (1964); The Malibu (with W.W. Robinson); The Manuscripts of D.H. Lawrence; The River Between (1979); Winter Crossing 1952 - Travel Notes from a Bygone era (1986).

Born on this day – Eleanor Alice Hibbert:

Eleanor Alice Hibbert

Writer

September 1, 1906 – January 18, 1993

Credits:

Books:

A Favorite of the Queen (1955); A Gothic Treasure Trove (1987); A Health Unto His Majesty (1956); A Time for Silence (1991); Alexa (1948); Begin to Live (1956); Believe the Heart (1950); Beyond the Blue Mountains (1947); Blaze of Noon (1958); Bride of Pendorric (1963); Bright Tomorrow (1952); Call of the Blood (1956); Caroline, the Queen (1968); Castile for Isabella (1960); Castles in Spain (1954); Charles II: Trilogy (1972); Courting Her Highness (1966); Danse Macabre (1952); Daughter of Anna (1941); Daughter of Deceit (1991); Daughter of Satan (1952); Daughters of England (1995); Daughters of Spain (1961); Dear Chance (1947); Dear Delusion (1952); Defenders of the Faith (1956); Epitaph for Three Women (1981); Evergreen Gallant (1965); Evil in the House / aka Such Bitter Business (1953); Flaunting, Extravagant Queen (1957); For a Queen's Love (1954); Goddess of the Green Room (1971); Hammer of the Scots aka Edward Longshanks (1979); Heart's Afire (1954); Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord (1957); In the Shadow of the Crown (1988); Indiscretions of the Queen (1970); It Began in Vauxhall Gardens / aka Melisande (1955); Katharine, the Virgin Widow (1961); Kirkland Revels (1962); Lament for a Lost Lover (1977); Last of the Stuarts (1977); Leave Me My Love (1953); Light on Lucrezia (1958); Lilith (1954); Lord of the Far Island (1975); Louis the Well Beloved (1959); Loyal in Love (1983); Lucrezia Borgia: Madonna of the Seven Hills and Light on Lucrezia (1976); Madame du Barry (1959); Madame Serpent (1951); Madonna of the Seven Hills (1958); Married in Haste (1956); Mary, Queen of France (1964); Mary, Queen of Scots (1975); Meg Roper (1961); Menfreya in the Morning / aka Menfreya (1966); Midsummer's Eve (1986); Milady Charlotte (1959); Miracle At St. Brunos (1972); Mistress of Mellyn (1960); Murder Most Royal / aka King's Pleasure (1949); My Enemy, the Queen (1978); Night of Stars (1960); Not in Our Stars (1945); Now That April's Gone (1961); On the Night of the Seventh Moon (1972); Passage to Pontefract (1981); Passionate Witness (1941); Perdita's Prince (1969); Poison in Pimlico (1950); Pride of the Morning (1958); Queen in Waiting (1967); Queen Jezebel (1953); Queen of This Realm (1985); Red Rose of Anjou (1982); Red Sky At Night (1959); Rochester (1957); Rooms at Mrs. Oliver's (1952); Royal Sisters (1966); Saint Or Sinner? (1951); Saraband for Two Sisters (1976); Secret for a Nightingale (1986); Selected Works (1979); Seven for a Secret (1992); Snare of Serpents (1990); So the Dreams Depart (1944); Spain for the Sovereigns (1960); Story of Elizabeth I (1984); Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill (1970); The Adulteress (1982); The Bastard King (1974); The Battle of the Queens (1978); The Bed Disturbed (1952); The Black Opal (1993); The Black Swan (1990); The Brides of Lanlory (1960); The Captive (1988); The Captive of Kensington Palace (1972); The Captive Queen of Scots (1963); The Changeling (1989); The Complete Tudors (2010); The Courts of Love (1987); The Curse of the Kings (1973); The Dawn Chorus (1959); The Demon Lover (1982); The Devil on Horseback (1977); The Drop of the Dice / aka Will You Love Me in September? (1981); The End of the Spanish Inquisition (1961); The Flesh and the Devil (1950); The Follies of the King (1980); The Goldsmith's Wife / aka The King's Mistress (1950); The Gossamer Cord (1992); The Growth of the Spanish Inquisition (1960); The Heart of the Lion (1977); The House At Cupid's Cross (1949); The House of a Thousand Lanterns (1974); The India Fan (1988); The Italian Woman / aka The Unholy Woman (1952); The Judas Kiss (1981); The King of the Castle (1967); The King's Confidante (1954); The King's Secret Matter (1962); The Lady in the Tower (1986); The Landower Legacy (1984); The Legend of the Seventh Virgin (1964); The Lion of Justice (1975); The Lion Triumphant (1973); The Love Child (1978); The Married Lover (1942); The Mask of the Enchantress (1980); The Merry Monarch's Wife / aka The Pleasures of Love (1991); The Murder in the Tower (1964); The Passionate Enemies (1976); The Plantagenet Prelude (1976); The Pool of Saint Branok (1987); The Pride of the Peacock (1976); The Prince and the Quakeress (1968); The Prince of Darkness (1978); The Princess of Celle (1967); The Queen and Lord M (1973); The Queen from Provence (1979); The Queen of Diamonds (1958); The Queen's Confession (1968); The Queen's Devotion / aka William's Wife (1992); The Queen's Husband (1973); The Queen's Secret (1989); The Regent's Daughter (1971); The Reluctant Queen (1990); The Return of the Gypsy (1985); The Revolt of the Eaglets (1977); The Rise of the Spanish Inquisition (1959); The Road to Compiegne (1959); The Road to Paradise Island (1985); The Rose Without a Thorn (1992); The Royal Road to Fotheringhay / aka Mary, Queen of Scotland: The Triumphant Year (1955); The Scarlet Cloak (1957); The Secret Woman (1970); The Shadow of the Lynx (1971); The Shadow of the Pomegranate (1962); The Shivering Sands (1969); The Silk Vendetta (1987); The Sixth Wife (1953); The Song of the Siren (1980); The Spanish Inquisition (1978); The Spring of the Tiger (1979); The Star of Lancaster (1981); The Sun in Splendour (1982); The Third George (1969); The Thistle and the Rose (1963); The Three Crowns (1965); The Time of the Hunter's Moon (1983); The Vow on the Heron (1980); The Wandering Prince (1956); The Widow of Windsor (1974); The Witch from the Sea (1975); The World's a Stage (1960); The Young Elizabeth (1961); The Young Mary Queen of Scots (1962); This Was a Man / aka The King's Adventurer: Captain John Smith And Pocahontas (1961); Three Great Romantic Stories (1972); To Hold the Crown (1982); To Meet a Stranger (1957); Together They Ride (1945); Triptych of Poisoners (1970); Two Loves in Her Life (1955); Victoria in the Wings (1972); Victoria Victorious (1985); Voices in a Haunted Room (1984); We'll Meet Again (1993); When Other Hearts (1955); When the Entire World Is Young (1943); When We Are Married (1953); Who's Calling? (1962); Zipporah's Daughter / aka The Knave of Hearts (1983).

Born on this day – Noel Francis:

Noel Francis

Actress

August 31, 1906 – October 30, 1959

Credits:

Bachelor Apartment (1931); Blonde Crazy (1931); Blood Money (1933); Bureau of Missing Persons (1933); Fifteen Wives (1934); Flames (1932); Frisco Jenny (1932); Good Dame (1934); Guilty as Hell (1932); Havana Widows (1933); Her Hired Husband (1930); Her Resale Value (1933); Hold Me Tight (1933); Husband's Holiday (1931); I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); Imitation of Life (1934); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Left Handed Law (1937); Madison Square Garden (1932); Man About Town (1932); Manhattan Tower (1932); Mutiny Ahead (1935); My Pal, the King (1932); New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930); Night Court (1932); Only Yesterday (1933); Reform Girl (1933); Resurrection (1931); Rough Romance (1930); Screen Snapshots (1932); Smart Money (1931); Smart Woman (1931); So Big! (1932); Son of a Sailor (1933); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Strictly Dynamite (1934); Sudden Bill Dorn (1937); The Easiest Way (1931); The Expert (1932); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); The Important Witness (1933); The Line-Up (1934); The Loudspeaker (1934); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); The Mouthpiece (1932); The White Cockatoo (1935); The White Parade (1934); Turkey for Two (1929); Under-Cover Man (1932); Up the River (1930); What's Your Racket? (1934).

Born on this day – Joan Blondell:

Joan Blondell

Actress

August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979

Credits:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); About Faces (1960); Ace of the Mounties (1966); Advance to the Rear (1964); Adventure (1945); Adventures in Paradise (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974–1975); All Star Revue (1951–1953); An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930); Anatomy of a Crime (1969); And Baby Makes Three (1966); And She Learned About Dames (1934); Angel Baby (1961); Back in Circulation (1937); Banyon (1972); Battered (1978); Big Breakdowns: Hollywood Bloopers of the 1930s (1991); Big Business Girl (1931); Big City Blues (1932); Big Daddy (1969); Blonde Crazy (1931); Blondie Johnson (1933); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bobby Parker and Company (1974); Bogart (1967); Bonanza (1964); Breakdowns of 1939 (1940); Broadway Bad (1933); Broadway Gondolier (1935); Broadway's Like That (1930); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Busby Berkeley and the Gold Diggers (1969); Carroll O'Connor Special (1973); Central Park (1932); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Eve (1947); Classic Movie Bloopers (1990); Colleen (1936); College of Musical Knowledge (1950); Complicated Women (2003); Convention City (1933); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Dames (1934); Death at Love House (1976); Death Valley Days (1963); Desk Set (1957); Don Juan Quilligan (1945); Donahue (1972); Dr. Kildare (1964); East Side of Heaven (1939); Family Affair (1967); Fantasy Island (1979); Feud (2017); Fireside Theatre (1955); Footlight Parade (1933); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); For Heaven's Sake (1950); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); General Electric Theater (1955); God's Gift to Women (1931); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal... Broadway Bound (2006); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Goodbye Again (1933); Grease (1978); Havana Widows (1933); He Was Her Man (1934); Here Come the Brides (1968–1970); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Newsreel (1934); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones, No. 2: 'Chip Shots' (1931); I Want a Divorce (1940); Illicit (1931); Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet (1950); It's Your Bet (1973); I've Got Your Number (1934); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1972); Just Around the Corner (1933); Kansas City Princess (1934); Kona Coast (1968); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Ladies Before Gentlemen (1951); Lady for a Night (1942); Lawyer Man (1932); Lizzie (1957); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Swinging Surgeon / Love and the Lovesick Sailor (1971–1973); Lux Playhouse (1959); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Make Me a Star (1932); McCloud (1971); Medical Center (1973); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Millie (1931); Miss Pacific Fleet (1935); Miss Pinkerton (1932); Model Wife (1941); Movie Bloopers (1988); Mrs. Thursday (1967); My Past (1931); My Three Sons (1965); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Night Nurse (1931); Nightmare Alley (1947); Off the Record (1939); Opening Night (1977); Other Men's Women (1930); Penthouse Party (1950); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1950); Person to Person (1959); Petticoat Junction (1968); Playhouse 90 (1957–1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Police Story (1975); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 (1935); Shower of Stars (1955); Sinners' Holiday (1930); Slattery's People (1965); Smarty (1934); Sons o' Guns (1936); Stage Struck (1936); Stand-In (1937); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Stay Away, Joe (1968); Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1989); Studio One (1958); Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971); Suspense (1953); Sweepstakes (1979); Switch (1976); Talent Scout (1937); That Girl (1968); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Arthur Murray Party (1950); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Baron (1977); The Blue Veil (1951); The Champ (1979); The Cincinnati Kid (1965); The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle (1965); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950 / 1954); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); The Crowd Roars (1932); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dead Don't Die (1975); The Devil's Parade (1930); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); The Faye Emerson Show (1950); The Frank Sinatra Show (1951); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Glove (1979); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967); The Heart Breaker (1930); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kid from Kokomo (1939); The King and the Chorus Girl (1937); The Love Boat (1978); The Lucy Show (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1965); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Merv Griffin Show (1970–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1972); The Milton Berle Show (1953–1955); The Movie Crazy Years (1971); The Movies (2019); The Name of the Game (1970); The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973); The Office Wife (1930); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Outsider (1968); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Phynx (1970); The Public Enemy (1931); The Real McCoys (1963); The Rebels (1979); The Reckless Hour (1931); The Rookies (1973); The Snoop Sisters (1974); The Spy in the Green Hat (1967); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Untouchables (1961); The Virginian (1963); 20 Questions (1950); The Witness (1961); The Woman Inside (1981); There's Always a Woman (1938); Things You Never See on the Screen (1935); This Could Be the Night (1957); Three Girls About Town (1941); Three Men on a Horse (1936); Three on a Match (1932); Topper Returns (1941); Traveling Saleslady (1935); Tribute to Bogart (1972); TV Club (1951); Two Girls on Broadway (1940); Union Depot (1932); Vacation Playhouse (1964); Wagon Train (1963); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); Waterhole #3 (1967); We're in the Money (1935); What's My Line? (1950); When the Talkies Were Young (1955); Who Said That? (1949); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); Winchester '73 (1967); Winner Take All (1975); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976).

Born on this day – Germana Paolieri:

Germana Paolieri

Actress

August 29, 1906 – August 8, 1998

Born on this day – June Collyer:

June Collyer

Actress

August 19, 1906 – March 16, 1968

Born on this day – Dorothy Jordan:

Dorothy Jordan

Actress

August 9, 1906 – December 7, 1988

Born on this day – John Huston:

John Huston

Actor

Director

Writer

Artist

August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987

Born on this day – Thelma Todd:

Thelma Todd

Actress

July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935

Credits:

A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); Abie's Irish Rose (1928); After the Dance (1935); Air Fright (1933); Air Hostess (1933); All Teed Up (1930); Aloha (1931); Alum and Eve (1932); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); An All American Toothache (1936); Another Fine Mess (1930); Asleep in the Feet (1933); Babes in the Goods (1934); Backs to Nature (1933); Beauty and the Bus (1933); Bottoms Up (1934); Broadminded (1931); Bum Voyage (1934); Call Her Savage (1932); Careers (1929); Catch-As Catch-Can (1931); Cheating Blondes (1933); Chickens Come Home (1931); Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934); Command Performance (1931); Corsair (1931); Counsellor at Law (1933); Crazy Feet (1929); Death Scenes (1989); Deception (1932); Dollar Dizzy (1930); Done in Oil (1934); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Fascinating Youth (1926); Fashion News (1930); Fireman, Save My Child (1927); Follow Thru (1930); God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926); Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994); Heart to Heart (1928); Her Man (1930); Her Private Life (1929); High C's (1930); Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934); History's Mysteries: Infamous Murders (2001–2004); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als die Bilder Lachen lernten (2014); Horse Feathers (1932); Hot Money (1935); Hotter Than Hot (1929); House of Horror (1929); Hurdy Gurdy (1929); I'll Be Suing You (1934); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Klondike (1932); Let's Do Things (1931); Lightning Strikes Twice (1934); Look Out Below (1929); Looser Than Loose (1930); Love Fever (1931); Maid in Hollywood (1934); Maids a la Mode (1933); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Monkey Business (1931); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter (1992); Naughty Baby (1928); Nevada (1927); No Limit (1931); On the Loose (1931); One Track Minds (1933); One-Horse Farmers (1934); Opened by Mistake (1934); Palooka (1934); Personality Parade (1938); Players at Play (1929); Pobre infeliz (1930); Red Noses (1932); Rough Seas (1931); Rubber Heels (1927); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 3 (1935); Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (1942); Sealskins (1932); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); Show Business (1932); Shy Boy (1929); Sing Sister Sing (1935); Sitting Pretty (1933); Slightly Static (1935); Snappy Sneezer (1929); Sneak Easily (1932); Son of a Sailor (1933); Soup and Fish (1934); Speak Easily (1932); Stepping Out (1929); Strictly Unreliable (1932); Swanee River (1931); Take the Stand (1934); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973); The Bachelor Girl (1929); The Bargain of the Century (1933); The Big Timer (1932); The Bohemian Girl (1936); The Crash (1928); The Devil's Brother (1933); The Fighting Parson (1930); The Gay Defender (1927); The Haunted House (1928); The Head Guy (1930); The Hot Heiress (1931); The King (1930); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Maltese Falcon (1931); The Misses Stooge (1935); The Nickel Nurser (1932); The Noose (1928); The Old Bull (1932); The Pajama Party (1931); The Pip from Pittsburg (1931); The Poor Rich (1934); The Real McCoy (1930); The Shield of Honor (1927); The Shrimp (1930); The Soilers (1932); The Tin Man (1935); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 13 (Second Series) (1932); This Is the Night (1932); Three Chumps Ahead (1934); Top Flat (1935); Treasure Blues (1935); Trial Marriage (1929); Twin Triplets (1935); Two for Tonight (1935); Unaccustomed As We Are (1929); Vamping Venus (1928); War Mamas (1931); When the Applause Died / Death in Hollywood (1990); Whispering Whoopee (1930); Yesterday and Today (1953); You Made Me Love You (1933).

Born on this day – Anthony Mann:

Anthony Mann

Director

Actor

June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967

Born on this day – Billy Wilder:

Billy Wilder

Director

June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002

Born on this day – Evalyn Knapp:

Evalyn Knapp

Actress

June 17, 1906 – June 12, 1981

Credits:

50 Million Frenchmen (1931); A Man's Game (1934); A Shocking Affair (1931); A Successful Calamity (1932); A Tight Squeeze (1930); Air Hostess (1933); All Stuck Up (1930); An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930); At the Dentist's (1929); Bachelor Mother (1932); Beach Babies (1929); Big City Blues (1932); Big Time Charlie (1929); Bulldog Edition (1936); Chills and Fever (1930); Confidential (1935); Corruption (1933); Dance, Girl, Dance (1933); Dancing Around (1929); Fireman, Save My Child! (1932); Gentlemen of the Evening (1929); Girl in 313 (1940); Hard Boiled Hampton (1929); Haunted; or, Who Killed the Cat? (1929); Hawaiian Buckaroo (1938); High Pressure (1932); His Operation (1929); His Private Secretary (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-7 (1934); How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots' (1931); How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones, No. 2: 'Chip Shots' (1931); Idiot's Delight (1939); In Old Santa Fe (1934); Ladies Crave Excitement (1935); Laughing Irish Eyes (1936); Love, Honor and Oh! Baby (1929); Madame Racketeer (1932); Meat and Romance (1940); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Mother's Cry (1930); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); One Frightened Night (1935); Perils of Pauline (1933); Police Car 17 (1933); Rawhide (1938); River's End (1930); Roar of the Press (1941); Sauce for the Gander (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists (1940); Side Show (1931); Sinners' Holiday (1930); Slightly Married (1932); Smart Money (1931); Speed Wings (1934); Sprockets (1991); State Trooper (1933); System (1930); Taxi (1931); Taxi Talks (1930); The Bargain (1931); The Fire-Trap (1935); The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941); The Millionaire (1931); The Night Mayor (1932); The Plumbers Are Coming (1929); The Smooth Guy (1929); The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932); The Vanishing Frontier (1932); This Sporting Age (1932); Three of a Kind (1936); Two Weeks to Live (1943); Wanted by the Police (1938); Wednesday Night at the Ritz (1929).

Born on this day – Josephine Baker:

Josephine Baker

Actress

June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975

Credits:

100 Jahre - Der Countdown (1999) 100 Years of the London Palladium (2010); 13 Heures le Journal (2007); 60 Years of the Filmed Press (1957); A Good Year (2006); Has Son of Satan (1924); Acht nach 8 (1973); Allegro (1968); Go Unfug ist schwer (1964); Am laufenden Band (1975); Amigos del martes (1964); Amsterdam (2022); Year Jedem Finger zehn (1954) Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009); Aquí el Segundo Programa (1966) Arte Journal (2021); BBC World News America (2021); Beginners (2010); Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (1971); Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975); Burlesque Undressed (2010); Café Continental (1948); Carmen and Geoffrey (2005); Carosello del varietà (1955); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2021); Those Dear Departed (1978–1980); It's good for morale (2006); Songs! (2022); Charlotte Perriand: Pioneer in the Art of Living (2019); Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker (1986); Chroniques de France (1967); Cinema Follies (1977); Cita con las estrellas (1956–1971) Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (2016); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (2012); Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance (2014); Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts (2001); David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010); Der goldene Schuß (1967); Desperately Seeking Grandma Alma (2022); Det går en kjempe gjennom landet (2001); Deutsche Schlagerfestspiele 1966 (1966); Die Abendschau (1963) Die Frauen von Folies Bergères (1927); Die wilden Zwanziger: Berlin und Tucholsky (2015); God has chosen Paris (1969); Discorama (1968); Donyale Luna: Supermodel (2023); Dzi Croquettes (2009); Echo (1972); Eine Starparade mit Marianne Koch (1969) In elsket kunstner - and sjældent menneske: Josephine Baker (1975); Erkennen Sie die Melodie? (1972); Explained (2021); Extrablätter (1965); Female Agents (2008); Forbidden Zone (1980); Frida (2002); Unicef Gala (1970); Gala of the union (1974); Geheimnisse der Weimarer Republik (2016); Germaine Damar - Der tanzende Stern (2011); Grüsse aus Zürich (1963); Immediate History (2013); History (2007); Hitler's Forgotten Victims (1997); Hotel Victoria (1967); Ikiru (1952); He Once upon a time: The Gala of the Union of Artists (1980); Infrared (2006); Inside Human Zoos (2018); Interview with the Vampire (2024); Intimate Portrait (1999); Invitation to Travel (2022); It's Black Entertainment (2002) Joe Gould's Secret (2000); Josephine Baker - Schwarze Diva in einer weißen Welt (2006); Josephine Baker in Color (2005); Josephine Baker i København (1957); Josephine Baker in Josephine Baker in color (2005); Josephine Baker singt Chansons und Schlager (1958) Josephine Baker: Rare or Unpublished Documents (1995); Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening (2018); War Diary No. 7, week of November 11, 1939 (1939); The Race to the Stars (1956); La folie du jour (1927); The France 5 Gallery (2016); The Night Is Them, Paris 1919-1939 (2018); La revue des revues (1927); The Tele de tu vida (2007); The Devil in the Body, Sensual and Remorseless (2022); The Grand Chessboard (1974); The 1 p.m. news (1976); The Blind Ship (1927); The Song Chart (1968); The Salt of the Week (1968); Legendary Sin Cities (2005); Legends (2009); 40 years of the 2nd (2004); The children of the country (2006); The Hot Hours of Montparnasse (1963); Sunday appointments (1977); Lilla journalen (1965); The Sunday Guest (1968); The Occupation without release- Artists during the War (2010); The Eye of the Storm (1992); The shadow of a doubt (2014); Lørdagskveld med Erik Bye (1971); Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023); Lovecraft Country (2020); Luces en la noche (1967) Madness Remixed (2021); Manhattan (2014); Manu Dibango, silences (1990); Masterpiece Mystery (2010); Matthijs gaat door (2022); Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (2023); Meine Melodie (1966); Melody und Rhythmus (1959) Midi Trente (1974); Midnight in Paris (2011); Moulin Rouge (1940); Mrs Mills (2018); Musiques au Coeur (1991); Myth of a Colorblind France (2020); Night-Club (1969–1971); Number One (1975); Odette Toulemonde (2006); Once Upon a Time... Man (1978); Paris (2007); Paris Was a Woman (1996); Paris: The Luminous Years (2010); Pariser Journal (1963); Pensando Sin Cansarme (2024); Primo Carnera: The Colossus with Feet of Clay (2017); Princess Tam-Tam (1935); Probe im Folies Bergère (1970); Project Twenty (1956) Protagonistas del Recuerdo (2006); Roots (1990); Rembob'Ina (2020); Rendez-vous with Maurice Chevalier (2021); Mosaik Review (1959); Rio Sex Comedy (2010); Roots & Wings (2023); Russin (1999); Sábado 64 (1965); Same Old Song (1997); Secrets History (2021); Ship's Reporter (1948–1952); Show - Charm - Songs (1965); Siegfried und Roy - Ein Leben für die Illusion (2021); Siren of the Tropics (1927); Siren of the Tropics (1928); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Söndagsbilagan (1962); Striptease: The Greatest Exotic Dancers of All Time (2004); Suite Française (2014); Sündenbabel Berlin - Metropolis of the Verbrechens 1918-1933 (2020); Suuri illusioni (1985); System 2 (1975–1976); Tel quel (1968); Télé dimanche (1968); The Comoedia (1981) The Double-Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933 (1973); The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010); The Flame of Functionalism (1989); The French Way (1940); The Giverny Document (2019); The Good Old Days (1972); The Josephine Baker Show (1964); The Kate Smith Evening Hour (1951) The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000); The Merv Griffin Show (1973) The Moderns (1988); The New Look (2024); The Originals (2016); The Out (2023); The Pursuit of Love (2021); The Road to War (1989); The Royal Variety Performance 1974 (1974) The Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein (1987); The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2024); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1974); The Twentieth Century (1960); The Walking Dead as Daryl Dixon (2023); Tid til at levé (1974); Today (2021); Todo el mundo al Marabú (2019); Touki Bouki (1973); Tove (2020); Treffpunkt Baden-Baden (1964); Umpteen Candles (1956); TV-journalen (1957); A Frenchman Named Gabin (2017); One Time for Everything (1983); A Woman, an Era (1979); One house, one artist (2013); Universum (2007); Valaida Snow: Queen of the Trumpet (2004); Victor Borges Tivoli 150 år (1993) Vie privée, vie publique (2006); Vincent Scotto (1962); Vive la France (1974); Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit - Ein Film über moderne Körperkultur (1925); Without Walls (1991); World War Weird (2017); Worn Stories (2021); Zelig (1983); Zou Zou (1934).

Born on this day – Lola Lane:

Lola Lane

Actress

May 21, 1906 – June 22, 1981

Credits:

Alias Mary Dow (1935); Buckskin Frontier (1943); Burn ‘Em Up Barnes (1934); Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004); Convicted Woman (1940); Daughters Courageous (1939); Deadline at Dawn (1946); Death from a Distance (1935); Ex-Bad Boy (1931); Four Daughters (1938); Four Mothers (1941); Four Wives (1939); Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929); Gangs of Chicago (1940); Girls of the Road (1940); Good News (1930); Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942); Hell Bound (1931); His Night Out (1935); Hollywood Hotel (1937); Identity Unknown (1945); In Paris, A.W.O.L. (1936); Let’s Go Places (1930); Lost Canyon (1942); Marked Woman (1937); Mr. Chump (1938); Murder on a Honeymoon (1935); Mystery Ship (1941); Panama (1938); Port of Lost Dreams (1934); Public Stenographer (1934); Speakeasy (1929); Steppin’ in Society (1945); The Big Fight (1930); The Costello Case (1930); The Girl from Havana (1929); The Sheik Steps Out (1937); The Voice of Hollywood No. 5 (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 7 (Second Series) (1931); The Woman Condemned (1934); The Woman Who Dared (1933); They Made Me a Killer (1946); Ticket to a Crime (1934); When Were You Born? (1938); Why Girls Leave Home (1945); Zanzibar (1940).

Born on this day – Bruce Bennett:

Bruce Bennett

Actor

May 19, 1906 – February 24, 2007

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1958); A Bundle of Bliss (1940); A Million to One (1936); A Stolen Life (1946); Amateur Crook (1937); Angels in the Outfield (1951); Atlantic Convoy (1942); Babies for Sale (1940); Beer Barrel Polecats (1946); Before I Hang (1940); Blake of Scotland Yard (1937); Blazing Six Shooters (1940); Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939); Boobs in the Woods (1940); Branded (1965); Cafe Hostess (1940); Cavalcade of America (1954); Cheyenne (1947); College Humor (1933); Convicted Woman (1940); Crossroads (1956); Daktari (1968); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Danger Patrol (1937); Danger Signal (1945); Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956); Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939); Dark Passage (1947); Deadhead Miles (1972); Death on the Diamond (1934); Dragonfly Squadron (1953); Dream Wife (1953); Escape to Glory (1940); Fireside Theatre (1953–1954); Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939); Five Little Peppers at Home (1940); Flaming Frontier (1958); Flying Fists (1937); Frontier Fury (1943); Girls of the Road (1940); Glamour for Sale (1940); Hawk of the Wilderness (1938); Hidden Guns (1956); His Bridal Fright (1940); Hi-Yo Silver (1940); Honolulu Lu (1941); I'm from Arkansas (1944); Invisible Stripes (1939); Island of Doomed Men (1940); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Laat de dokter maar schuiven (1980); Land of Fighting Men (1938); Laramie (1960); Lassie (1970–1971); Lassie: Well of Love (1970); Lazy River (1934); Lost Island of Kioga (1966); Love Me Tender (1956); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1957); Madison Square Garden (1932); Meet the Baron (1933); Mildred Pierce (1945); Million Dollar Legs (1932); Million Dollar Racket (1937); Mooching Through Georgia / The Spook Speaks (1940); Mooching Through Georgia / The Taming of the Snood (1940); Movie Crazy (1932); Murder in Times Square (1943); My Son Is Guilty (1939); Mystery Street (1950); No Census, No Feeling (1940); Nora Prentiss (1947); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Panic! (1958); Perry Mason (1958–1965); Playhouse 90 (1957); Rescue 8 (1958); Riptide (1934); Robbers' Roost (1955); Sabotage Squad (1942); Sahara (1943); Sappy Birthday (1942); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957); Shadow of Chinatown (1936); Shakedown (1950); Silks and Saddles (1936); Silver River (1948); Sky Racket (1937); Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948); So Long Mr. Chumps (1941); So You Won't Talk (1940); Stories of the Century (1954); Strategic Air Command (1955); Student Tour (1934); Submarine Raider (1942); Sudden Fear (1952); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938); Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan (1996); Task Force (1949); The Alligator People (1959); The Big Tip Off (1955); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Clones (1973); The Cosmic Man (1959); The Doctor and the Girl (1949); The Fiend of Dope Island (1960); The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938 / 1943); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1954); The Great Missouri Raid (1951); The Heckler (1940); The House Across the Street (1949); The Last Outpost (1951); The Linkletter Show (1952); The Lone Ranger (1938); The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940); The Loretta Young Show (1953); The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940); The Man I Love (1946); The Man with Nine Lives (1940); The More the Merrier (1943); The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935); The Officer and the Lady (1941); The Outsider (1961); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Phantom Submarine (1940); The Second Face (1950); The Secret Seven (1940); The Texan (1958); The Three Outlaws (1956); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); The Virginian (1967); The Younger Brothers (1949); There's Something About a Soldier (1943); Three Girls About Town (1941); Three Missing Links / Dutiful But Dumb (1941); Three Missing Links / How High Is Up? (1940); Three Violent People (1956); To the Victor (1948); Torpedo of Doom (1966); Touchdown! (1931); Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942); Treasure Island (1934); Two Latins from Manhattan (1941); Two Minutes to Play (1936); U-Boat Prisoner (1944); Underground Agent (1942); Undertow (1949); West of Abilene (1940); West Point (1957); Whirlybirds (1957–1959); With This Ring (1954); Without Honor (1949); You Can't Buy Everything (1934); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953).

Born on this day – Mary Astor:

Mary Astor

Actress

May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987

Credits:

A Kiss Before Dying (1956); A Stranger in My Arms (1959); A Successful Calamity (1932); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); Across the Pacific (1942); Act of Violence (1948); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1959); All But Forgotten (1978); American Cinema (1995); And So They Were Married (1936); Any Number Can Play (1949); Backstory (2001); Beau Brummel (1924); Behind Office Doors (1931); Ben Casey (1963); Blonde Fever (1944); Breakdowns of 1941 (1941); Brigham Young (1940); Brother of the Bear (1921); Buick-Electra Playhouse (1960); Bullets or Ballots (1921); Burke's Law (1963); Cass Timberlane (1947); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Checkmate (1962); Claudia and David (1946); Climax! (1955–1957); Convention City (1933); Cynthia (1947); Danger (1954); Desert Fury (1947); Dinky (1935); Dodsworth (1936); Don Juan (1926); Don Q Son of Zorro (1925); Dr. Kildare (1962–1963); Dressed to Kill (1928); Dry Martini (1928); Easy to Love (1934); Enticement (1925); Fiesta (1947); Forever After (1926); Front Row Center (1955); Frontier Justice (1959); General Electric Theater (1959); Heart to Heart (1928); High Steppers (1926); Holiday (1930); Hollywood (1923); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Home Stories (1990); Hope (1922); Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964); I Am a Thief (1934); In the Good Old Summertime Intro (2004); Inez from Hollywood (1924); James Dean's Lost Slideshow (2013); Jennie Gerhardt (1933); John Smith (1922); Justice (1955); Kraft Theatre (1951–1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1954); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1960); Ladies Love Brutes (1930); Lady from Nowhere (1936); Listen, Darling (1938); Little Women (1949); Lux Video Theatre (1956–1957); Man of Iron (1935); Matinee Theatre (1956); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Men of Chance (1931); Midnight (1939); My Lady o' the Pines (1921); New Year's Eve (1929); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); No Place to Go (1927); No Time to Marry (1938); Northern Exposure (1994); Oh, Doctor! (1925); Okay for Sound (1946); Other Men's Women (1930); Page Miss Glory (1935); Paradise for Three (1938); Person to Person (1960); Playhouse 90 (1957–1960); Playing with Souls (1925); Playwrights '56 (1956); Ponds Theater (1955); Producers' Showcase (1955); Puritan Passions (1923); Rawhide (1961); Red Dust (1932); Red Hot Tires (1935); Return of the Terror (1934); Return to Peyton Place (1961); Robert Montgomery Presents (1956); Romance of the Underworld (1928); Rose of the Golden West (1927); Sailors' Wives (1928); Scarlet Saint (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Memories (1951); Second Fiddle (1923); Sentimental Tommy (1921); Show of Shows (1929); Smart Woman (1931); Some of the Greatest (1955); Star Stage (1956); Stay Tuned (1992); Straight from the Heart (1935); Studio 57 (1956); Studio One (1954–1958); Success (1923); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The Angelus (1922); The Beggar Maid (1921); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Bright Shawl (1923); The Case of the Howling Dog (1934); The Confession (2018); The Defenders (1963); The Devil's Hairpin (1957); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fighting American (1924); The Fighting Coward (1924); The Great Lie (1941); The Hollywood Gad-About (1934); The Hurricane (1937); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The Lash (1930); The Little Giant (1933); The Lost Squadron (1932); The Maltese Falcon (1941); The Man Who Played God (1922); The Man with Two Faces (1934); The Marriage Maker (1923); The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1935); The Pace That Thrills (1925); The Palm Beach Story (1942); The Philadelphia Story (1959); The Power and the Prize (1956); The Price of a Party (1924); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Rapids (1922); The Rough Riders (1927); The Royal Bed (1931); The Rules of Film Noir (2009); The Runaway Bride (1930); The Sea Tiger (1927); The Sin Ship (1931); The Sunset Derby (1927); The Twentieth Century (1959); The Wise Guy (1926); The Woman from Hell (1929); The World Changes (1933); The Young Painter (1922); There's Always a Woman (1938); This Happy Feeling (1958); Those We Love (1932); Thousands Cheer (1943); Thriller (1960); 3-Ring Marriage (1928); To the Ladies (1923); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1974); Trapped by Television (1936); Turnabout (1940); Two Arabian Knights (1927); U.S. Marshal (1958–1960); Unguarded Women (1924); Upperworld (1934); WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926); White Shoulders (1931); Wings of the Border (1921); Woman Against Woman (1938); Woman-Proof (1923); Yesterday and Today (1953); Young Ideas (1943); Youngblood Hawke (1964); Zane Grey Theatre (1957).

Born on this day – Curley Weaver:

Curley Weaver

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 25, 1906 – September 20, 1962

Track listings on pictured CD: Curly Weaver The Complete Recorded Works 1933–1935 in Chronological Order, including music with The Georgia Browns:

No No Blues; Leg Iron Blues; Some Cold Rainy Day; Tippin’ Tom; Birmingham Gambler; Tampa Street; Decatur Street 81; Next Door Man (Take 1); Next Door Man (Take 2); It Must Have Been Her; Who Stole de Lock?; Joker Man; You Was Born to Die; Dirty Mistreater; Black Woman; City Cell Blues; Empty Room Blues; Tricks Ain’t Walking No More; Sometime Mama; Oh Lawdy Mama; Two Faced Woman; Early Morning Blues; Fried Pie Blues.